Almost 70 per cent of Australians would pay more for their clothes if they knew overseas workers were paid a decent wage and that garment factories had safe working conditions, according to a new Oxfam Australia survey. The survey, which ...
Facebook has admitted that it exposed six million users' private phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorised viewers over the last year. The social media network blamed a technical bug for the data breach, which has resulted in ...
Tags: Facebook, Private Data, Social Media Network
Two Wikileaks volunteers have revealed that Google released data from their Gmail accounts to the US government under the secret, legally enforced information seizures being made by the Prism security group. Since Prism, and the secret, ...
Tags: Google, Wikileaks, Gmail Account, NSA
Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance Company has introduced a traditional deferred fixed annuity named Simplicity Elite to the address needs of pre-retirees. Simplicity Elite series offers minimum guarantees and the guaranteed minimum death ...
Aptiv Solutions, a US-based medical device and biopharmaceutical company, has introduced AptivInSite, a new adaptive monitoring methodology. Developed for medical device companies, AptivInSite helps in maximising trial efficiency while ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, biopharmaceutical
Facebook said the problem was tied to its Download Your Information tool. Source: AFP Facebook says a bug in its system caused six million users' contact information to be inadvertently exposed. The social media company said the bug led ...
Tags: Facebook, Contact Information, Social Media
More secret National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden to The Guardian suggest that the U.S. agency's British counterpart intercepts petabytes worth of communication data daily from fiber-optic cables. The operation ...
Web content filtering company Netsweeper has supplied its products to Pakistan, even as some top IT companies have refused to supply gear for a controversial filtering project, a Canadian research group has disclosed. The new report ...
Tags: Netsweeper, Internet Content, Pakistan
LinkedIn's domain name was temporarily redirected to a third-party server Thursday, which resulted in a service outage and potentially put user accounts at risk of compromise. Uptime monitoring service Pingdom recorded that LinkedIn was ...
Java continues to be Public Enemy No. 1 when it comes to computer and network security. Oracle released a huge update for the virtually ubiquitous software, but attackers aren’t done exploiting Java as the weakest link in the security ...
Tags: Java Update, Oracle
EPA’s Pinocchio nose continues to grow longer. Despite a barrage of criticism following the admitted release of private farmer data to three environmental groups after a Freedom of Information Act request, EPA has clammed up and ...
Tags: EPA, Farmer Privacy
Aquatech has introduced the HEVAP high efficiency evaporation process for treating produced water from oil sands thermal processes such as Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD). “Increasingly, oil producers in Alberta are choosing ...
Tags: Aquatech, Machinery, Evaporation Process
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) announces the availability of a new Ladder Safety smart phone application (app). This new app uses visual and audio signals to make it easier for workers using extension ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, NIOSH, Phone, App
The International Sleep Products Assn. says it led the way in developing a new ASTM voluntary crib mattress standard, which sets a size requirement for crib mattresses and establishes a test method to confirm the size. The new standard ...
Tags: Crib Mattress, Light Industry
Last week's attack on the Virgin Radio Dubai website could have provided cyber-criminals with a springboard from which to launch targeted attacks, according to a researcher from Kaspersky Lab. The popular music station's website was taken ...
Tags: Computer Products